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BARBBD WIRE. No. 277,423. Patented May 8,1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES S. LOOKE, OF J OLIET, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE WHITTIER, OF SAME PLACE.

BARBED WIRE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 277,423, dated May 8, 1883.

Application filed October 30,1882. (No model.)

the construction and operation of which I will proceed to explain, reference being bad to the annexed drawings and the letters and figures thereon, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view Figs. 2 and 3, side views; Fig. 4, a detached view of a piece of the strand wire, showing the loop a; and Fig. 5, a detached view of a single barb before it is applied to the strand wire.

The nature and object of this invention consist in the novel mode or way of coiling a single wire barb-on a single strand wire after passin g the barb through a loop in the strand wire,

this invention relating to that class of barbed wires wherein a single wire barb is applied to and coiled upon a single strand wire in such manner as to prevent lateral movement of the barb or rotation of the barb thereon.

Referring to the drawings, it represents the single strand wire having the loops a formed along its length at suitable distances apart for a barb to be placed therein. The barb c is formed of a straight piece of wire, as shown in Fig. 5, cut off diagonally at either end to form points or prods c.

The construction or formation of the barb upon the strand wire is very thoroughly illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, wherein the barb is shown as having been passed through the loop in the wire strand until its middle or center part is inclosed within the loop, after which its points are coiled in opposite directions around the strand wire next the loop and point in opposite directions, as shown. After the barb is placed within the loop a, as shown, its first bend is in the direction of the length of the strand wire in either direction, so as to prevent the straightening out of the loop a, as shown more particularly in Figs. 2 and 3,

when a strain is applied to the strand wire. The prods c are then each coiled in opposite directions, at least once entirely around the strand wire on either side of the loop, forming a tie around the strand wire to thoroughly preventstraightening out of the loop iuthe strand wire and displacement of the prods c of the barb from their proper position. next bend of the points or prods of the barb is around the strand wire, as before stated, thus forming a very neat, firm, and compact twopointed wirebarb on a single strand of wire in such manner that it cannot rotate or have lateral movement along on the strand wire.

Iam aware thatcrimps,bcnds,andloopshave been used in a strand wire for fence purposes for holding on barbs, but not in connection with a wire barb placed upon the strand wire in the manner herein set forth.

I am aware of the use of a barb formed of wire and having a loop in its body to interloop with a loop in the strand wire, such as is used by J. E. Page in a patent granted to him December 7, 1875, No. 170,891. Such a construction I do not claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claimas new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a barbed wire for a, having the loop a formed at intervals along its length, in combination with the two-pointed wire barb 0', placed on said strand wire by passing the barb a through the loop a, and bending its two prods o" c in opposite directions and in the direction of the length of the strand wire a against the coils of said loop, and then coiling the two prods c c of said barb in opposite directions at least once entirely around the strand wire a on either side of the loop, so they will point in opposite directions, a-s'and for the purpose set forth.

CHARLES S. LOGKE.

Witnesses:

THOS. H. HUTCHINS, GEORGE WHITTIER.

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